... who ought to be corporate British patriots to get away with licensed treason. The British Airports Authority (BAA) was an identity. It should not have been sold to Spaniards who have no national interest in promoting London's Heathrow as a gateway to Britain. See Private Eye 27 September 2007. It is possible the intelligence reform highlighted by Nick Clegg MP has been stood down. He was quoted in The Times 11 September 2007 with a plan 'which would mean a combined anti-terrorism intelligence force, answerable to the Home Secretary, freeing SIS to continue with its core functions, answerable to the Foreign Secretary'. This would avoid a 'wholesale take-over of MI6 priorities by MI5-led anti-terrorism operations, ...

... the presence of the Conservative Party has vanished in large areas across Wales, the north and Scotland. The background of MPs is also markedly different. Buttressed by a huge substructure of lobby groups, policy advisors and think tanks that barely existed in the '50s, it is now common for individuals to have had no career outside politics (witness Clegg and Miliband) before entering the Palace of Westminster. Economic policy under Churchill and Eden might have been (as it still is across much of the EU) strictly Keynesian, but, 'official' policy in the UK since 1979 has been to set the basic rate of personal income tax at the lowest possible level; it is now ...

... act as Communities Secretary was to appoint additional commissioners to run Tower Hamlets. He has two new jobs: 'anti-corruption tsar' and chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) .3 9 In his previous post Pickles closed down the anti-corruption unit along with the rest of the Audit Commission. Pickles's former Liberal Democrat Coalition government partner Nick Clegg has lost not only most of his LibDem MPs but also his former head of communications. According to the Jewish Chronicle, James Sorene 'will lead BICOM [Britain Israel Communications& Research Centre] after 15 years in senior positions at the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department of Health....Previously head of public affairs at the Israeli ...